Marya Hornbacher Quotes

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Truth is always a delusion.

If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To me, it seems self-evident that everyone lives in the real world - we all breathe real oxygen, eat real food, the earth under our feet feels equally solid to all of us. But clearly these people have a far more tightly circumscribed definition of reality, one that I find deeply mysterious, and an almost pathologically intense need to bring others into line with that definition.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.